By Karen Wenderoff | National Director of Development
In the past year, the David Lynch Foundation (DLF), through our Operation Warrior Wellness Program, served 326 veterans and active military personnel at five sites around the country.
As one vet wrote to us, “ So far, my results from TM have been beyond anything I expected. I have gone from averaging 3 hours a sleep a night, to roughly 5 or 6. While that may seem insufficient for most people, to a PTSD sufferer who battles insomnia, that is a huge step… Meditation has done more for me in a period of months than VA-prescribed pills have done in the last 10 years. Again, I have a long way to go, and stress can still cause me to subconsciously go into busy frenzies of isolation from loved ones, but I am a lot more cognizant of this now, and I tend to be a lot more attached to my wife and family.” This is just one of countless glowing reports from soldiers who had given up hope of relief until they began meditating.
DLF is focused on evidence-based research is always measuring its programs to ensure success. In one study last year, we taught the TM technique to 83 active service personnel and veterans at the Eisenhower Army Medical Center Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic at Fort Gordon in Georgia. A controlled research study on the impact of the TM technique on these military personnel was conducted by the Georgia Prevention Center at Georgia Regents University in Augusta, Georgia, and the Eisenhower TBI Clinic. The study found that the TM technique enables soldiers with PTSD to reduce the amount of psychotropic medicines that they take. The research will be published as a U.S. Department of Defense study this fall. It lays the groundwork for making TM a standard treatment in traumatic brain injury clinics across the country. In addition, Eisenhower will assume the cost of the TM program at the TBI clinic this fall; other TBI clinics in the southeast and Texas are also considering implementing the TM technique as part of a standard treatment protocol.
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